Christopher Polt🏳️‍🌈
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Early in development for Fantasia in 1938, Disney briefly considered animating J.R.R. Tolkien's recently-published The Hobbit and setting it against parts of Wagner's Ring cycle. This was shelved, but the
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One of my fav. pieces of Egyptian art, which I sometimes share in my course on talking animals in ancient literature: a "satiric-erotic" papyrus depicting anthropomorphic animals (it's originally one
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Heinrich Kley was a German illustrator and favorite of Walt Disney & many Disney artists, incl. Joe Grant, Ken Anderson, & Andreas Deja (whose blog has some neat posts on
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Tarzan (1999, dir. @GoofyMovieDir & Chris Buck) is on Disney+, so let’s talk about one of its most brilliant sequences. Want to see how “Strangers Like Me” subtly teaches the
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In Disney’s Hercules (1997), right after Meg finishes the first refrain of “I Won’t Say I’m in Love,” she walks into a part of the garden filled with statues, each
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The opening sequence of Walt Disney's Hercules (1997) is filled with depictions of actual works of physical art — an appreciation thread with photos of their real-life objects. Let's start
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In Disney's Hercules (1997), after Herc and Meg ditch Phil to go on a date, they stroll through a statue garden. They talk a bit, things are awkward, Meg trips
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